The daf is still talking about zimun, but it jumps to a distant area of halakhah to help explain it – in this case, what happens when a bed is rendered tameh/rituallly impure.
Also: How wine becomes wine — in an era when it needs water to redeem it from what we call the “petel” (concentrate, often for fruit punch, in modern Israel) of wine in the ancient world.
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